TSHILWAVHUSIKU – Community members in the Sinthumule/Kutama area are still pondering the question as to whether a man who looked very forlorn, clothed in dirty torn clothes and walked bare footed is an alien, a zombie or is he just a mentally disturbed person. He was found in the bush near the Air Force Base on December 30, last year.

This short man who appears to be in his mid 30's is detained at the Tshilwavhusiku Police Station. When asked to write his name he wrote "Sinkalanka". In addition, it appears to be extremely difficult for the man to look directly into other people's faces. He also appears very shy. When Mirror visited the Police Station, Sinkalanka looked cool and collected like someone without problems.

When he was requested by Mirror to write his name the "alien" wrote Siakala not Sinkalanka anymore. According to the Tshilwavhusiku Police Station Commissioner, Capt SF Shirinda, the man's behaviour since his detention at the station has been good. Community members in the Sinthumule/Kutama area have been visiting the station to see if they could not identify the man. Capt Shirinda added that the man was once taken to Tshikota settlement after some members of the community claimed that they have once seen him in the area. Shirinda said that the man's fingerprints have already been taken to the Local Criminal Record Centre in Louis Trichardt as well as to Home Affairs to find out if he is a South African. Capt Shirinda also appeals to members of the community in the Far North who have a relative whom they do not know of his/her whereabouts, to visit the Tshilwavhusiku Police Station or to contact him at 082 451 7163.